YND 12: Above & Beyond You're Nearly Dead

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p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4a4f56} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4a4f56; min-height: 15.0px} The theme this week is rap, and our hosts tackle it like any white middle class english men would: with embarrassing enthusiasm and beats stolen from Dre. This week’s pieces: CHARLIE Miss Bliss and Mister Blister She’s sunshine’s brighter sister, with the Gist of her rays and her ways And her warm lazy gaze but not seeing Lookin’ but not being alive to the facts That where she’s warm, he lacks Any form of human quality at all But just a short lesson from this rapping impression This guy keeps me guessing’ but he keeps on impressin’ her BEN Bicycle Face I rode into the wind and I got disfigured Found no kinda gun Could get me triggered Chose harder higher gears to push through the years Working uphill for fear of going down I Tried to break And I broke Down Each passing place I passed the same Ticking off time And tasks the same Making me a machine My bike, my brain Got clogged with clay Saw the next place Refused to pass Left me laying On the cold damp grass These working days And our working ways Put every play in the past We are burning our way During our stay In order to travel through fast MATT Draggin’ I don’t take time to get to speed Accelerating, Never need More than what I’ve got — I’m never sweating any beads L-A-S-S I’m here to burn the finish line Smoking all these suckers In my mirrors they’re behind me. Taking the lead, Taking the top team To the limit and winning, Never stopping or giving Anything away This has always been my day For you this is do or die For me this is playtime Hold the red light I don’t want you disqualified I’m here to see your face On the video rewind V-E-G-A, yeah that’s me Taking it above and beyond The whole scene.

p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica} p.p2 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px Helvetica; min-height: 16.0px} p.p3 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4a4f56} p.p4 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 13.0px 'Helvetica Neue'; color: #4a4f56; min-height: 15.0px} The theme this week is rap, and our hosts tackle it like any white middle class english men would: with embarrassing enthusiasm and beats stolen from Dre. This week’s pieces: CHARLIE Miss Bliss and Mister Blister She’s sunshine’s brighter sister, with the Gist of her rays and her ways And her warm lazy gaze but not seeing Lookin’ but not being alive to the facts That where she’s warm, he lacks Any form of human quality at all But just a short lesson from this rapping impression This guy keeps me guessing’ but he keeps on impressin’ her BEN Bicycle Face I rode into the wind and I got disfigured Found no kinda gun Could get me triggered Chose harder higher gears to push through the years Working uphill for fear of going down I Tried to break And I broke Down Each passing place I passed the same Ticking off time And tasks the same Making me a machine My bike, my brain Got clogged with clay Saw the next place Refused to pass Left me laying On the cold damp grass These working days And our working ways Put every play in the past We are burning our way During our stay In order to travel through fast MATT Draggin’ I don’t take time to get to speed Accelerating, Never need More than what I’ve got — I’m never sweating any beads L-A-S-S I’m here to burn the finish line Smoking all these suckers In my mirrors they’re behind me. Taking the lead, Taking the top team To the limit and winning, Never stopping or giving Anything away This has always been my day For you this is do or die For me this is playtime Hold the red light I don’t want you disqualified I’m here to see your face On the video rewind V-E-G-A, yeah that’s me Taking it above and beyond The whole scene.